skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks, that’s is a really comprehensive list, as always there is very rarely a single reason for such large scale changes like wage stagnation.

Imo wage stagnation in the US seems to be far more attributable to deregulation, decline of unions and pressure from public companies to constantly cut costs to justify rising stock prices.

I am not exactly sure when it started, but if the topic is immigration impact on stagnating wages, I believe unless I am mistaken that the US-Mexico border was in fact a lot more open up to the 50’s, at least for cheap seasonal agricultural workers, until an ex marine general took over immigration enforcement sometime in the 60’s (or maybe 70’s?) with the perverse effect of forcing more seasonal immigrants to stay rather than risk going back home and not being able to come back.
While using git as an example is a bit over simplifying I agree with the comment. Over time, if you plan ahead, your build up a set of building blocks and at some point you can put together an application very quickly. I suppose it is all relative though. While a month might seem fast to me someone else might expect a solid, fully featured application in a day or a weekend.
Huh you are exactly right. As soon as I zoomed out twice it looked perfect.
You can find a lot of posts with people successfully using cream hair bleach and UV lights to restore 80's PCs. They call it "retrobrighting". One resource: https://powercc.org/retrobright/
Rather than alluding to vague upsides, can you list what upsides you want to assert that social media provides, so that we can do as you say and perform a cost/benefit analysis? As both an early adopter and former user of both Facebook and Twitter, my eventual conclusion was that whatever benefits they offered were vastly outweighed by the mental toll they took on me.
Wood is a renewable resource.

I don't see how using it is bad.
That and asking a specific question let's you find out what they actually consider W/L balance to be - i.e. I assume a group of 25 year olds probably see their jobs differently to people twice that age with kids (I'm reminded of Lex Fridman asking Jim Keller what his greatest achievement was, and him basically saying I have kids or something to that effect)
More annoying for our codebase is the inability to specify optional/default arguments with closures. We often use functions that return other functions and you can't persist the "optional state" without using a protocol. It would be great just to match the current state of vanilla defs with optional params.

For example:

def make_fun1(a: int) -> Callable[[int, Optional[int]], str]:
def fun(b: int, c: Optional[int] = None) -> str:
if c:
b += c
return f"{a+b}"

return fun

fun = make_fun(1)
fun(2)

Will give you `Too few arguments` for `fun(2)`

You can fix this with something like:

class FunC(Protocol):
def __call__(self, b: int, c: Optional[int] = None) -> str: ...

def make_fun(a: int) -> FunC: ...

But that that seems like unnecessary overhead, because the non-nested def case can happily understand the optional parameter.
IMHO, I think this is great. It's taking people with shit job prospects and starting them on a good career. I went through something like this, got paid ~33k for a year and had similar repayment conditions and non competes. I did my time, left that initial shithole of a company, and embarked on a lucrative career. It's no exaggeration to call it a life changing opportunity.

I find it interesting to compare getting hired at these places to the big tech firms. I've applied to places with collectively thousands of open engineer roles. But they all have a process to find a reason not to hire you. Like one place I did well on 3/4 coding challenges and kind of bombed the system design interview. None of these companies will look at that and say, well this person has potential let's give them a chance. They all will say, well they don't raise the bar so let's just keep our dozens of needed roles unfilled.
Most people lose money with crypto, not making it. Why? Because they don't buy and sell weeks/months later, they gamble on leveraged trades. And all the winners you see, they don't show their losses.

Slow and steady wins the game. Try to see opportunities in the future when they occur and try to catch some of them. You will miss most, which is fine, everybody does.
I see a lot of classic examples of survivorship bias in this thread.
Yes, My previous comment should make it a little more reasonable.

Eureka + Ikea = Eurekea

But it still sucks. I guess I'll be forefieting this domain & buying one with better name for the brand out of my pocket.
Yes, two examples: Porsche in 2008 with Volkswagen and Martin Shkreli with KBIO in 2015. Neither faced any significant legal consequences and both made a huge return.

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/kalobios-short-sellers-fac...
HFT firms are making a killing on the volatility and order flow
Robin hood is free because their flow goes to third parties like citadel instead of smart order routers at sell side firms. But that is an edge of a less than a second. It is generally good to be able to ascribe an identity to order flow, but retail tends to behave in a predictable way at medium time scales
Similar problems in the UK. My wife recently bought a flat to rent out, she's been handling all the comms and paperwork with the solicitors, mortgage company, etc. I only own a 5% share, but when it came to closing the (female) solicitor (attorney?) called me first every single time she had a question, even though I told her every time she should call my wife as she's handling all the arrangements.
While I agree, unfortunately we're in the minority of people who actually care about that. The best I can ask for at this point is sane defaults.
> But you can't accurately assess the whole picture without taking the upsides into account, too.

Trust me, with trillion dollar corporations pushing their propaganda nonstop and self-important, self-appointed lords of industry convincing themselves every little tweak to their website is world-changing, the "upsides" need no signal boost from me.

Sorry to be a bit of a downer, but we absolutely should be talking about the downsides instead of listening to over-powerful CEOs tell us how great their crack is.

Also, you forgot that planes emit CO2, which is not just a subjective judgment, but is objectively bad for our planet in large quantities. ;)
https://archive.is/QU6cS
I think this is a good thing. About 7 years Shell bought First Utility - a 100% renewable energy company. It’s rebranded to Shell Energy now, but still 100% renewable.

I imagine they just want to diversify outside of fossil fuels because they see the writing on the wall.
WSB certainly has the narrative locked up, but that doesn't actually mean anything when it comes to who is walking away with fatter wallets.

There is zero percent chance that this is actually playing out the way WSB is claiming it's playing out.
Yes the l3 chache was doubled, on mobile it was only 8 MB total (split 4+4) now it is 16 MB shared by all cores.
Exactly. Stock owners are free to not sell their stock and this cannot be ignored.

I have a guitar that I could sell on the open market for ~$300.

But I don't want to sell it.

If someone offered me $300 for it, I'd say no. If they offered $400, I'd still say no. I'd say no at $900.

Why? Because I don't want to sell it and I don't have to.

There is some price that will change my mind, of course, but it has nothing to do with the actual value of the guitar.
I couldn't view the story because it requires you to click-through a legal agreement in order to bring up the content.
> Also the whole cancel culture is crazy since it’s so trigger happy.

I have given this a great deal of thought and I'm still torn on what to believe.
On one hand, everyone wants to be judge, jury, and executioner.
This means that the power the state has to determine these things is eroded.
Probably as a result of the general loss of trust in institutions.

On the other hand, the United States specifically has a long history of what is considered community justice.
Often this happens when the institutions to provide it do not exist yet or fail in their goals.

Similar to losing any kind of arbiter of truth, we are also losing truth in justice.
Truth takes time, the mob is fickle, and the pitchforks are heavy.
Yes, it depends on content and won't do much for grainy surfaces. I don't have AAA game quality textures to compare, but I think for usual textured model it is still worthwhile. eg. this https://milek7.pl/.stuff/somelocotex.png weights 16MiB uncompressed, 5.1MiB as PNG, 5.3MiB as DXT5, and 2.1MiB as DXT5-in-LZ4. (mipmaps included in DXT5)

>PS I think that BC could be massaged at compression to be better compressible, and i think i read something about that. Don't remember.

There's Oodle BC7Prep from RAD Game Tools: http://www.radgametools.com/oodletexture.htm

EDIT: RAD page states that "BC7 blocks that are often very difficult to compress", so that might be also a factor why my DXT5 test compressed much better than your BC7.

EDIT2: Yeah, with BC7 LZ4 only compresses it down to 4.6MiB.
As an ex hedge fund / HFT options guy, I would be intrigued to know who is lending their stock out to be shorted. You'd think they have some incentive to stop lending them out, especially if the options are pushing the gamma so short that the sellers need to cover. If the options guys are needing to buy but nobody can sell, that would seem to be quite good for someone who is holding the stock.

I'm not so sure about the soccer moms thing. The FT has a chart of how many small players there are, and although it's shot up it doesn't look huge to me. Seems to me the WSB crowd IS making money, but there's probably more institutions jumping on for a piece of meat too.
I wrote a whole sqlite wrapper while in my hot tub carrel. I call that time "meditubbing." I read a story somewhere a thousand years ago about Gustave Flaubert's work habits. As I recall, at a dinner party: Woman: "Was your day fruitful?" Flaubert: "Yes, very." Woman: "How many words did you write?" Flaubert: "None."
Sudo was (maybe still is?) an OpenBSD project. I don't believe it originated there, but their code forms/formed the basis for sudo pretty much everywhere, much like OpenSSH.
I have distinct memories of a website Defvac or Defecation Vacation. Morgue photos and other terrible content. This was between 1995 and 1998 I think?
I'm not going to argue that's a great experience. But I think it's important to remember a lot of very dysfunctional families come through the birthing center. Questions you as the husband are perfectly capable of answering, another husband may simply lie. Yes, she and I agreed not to use any pain medication, for example.

It's also a good time to catch abused, controlled, or manipulated women at an extremely vulnerable point in their lives. This doesn't mean men are never abused- but childbirth doesn't exactly seem like the place to discover it.

I've been through the experience. I think it's important to remember that, as the father, you are very much party- but you are not the patient.
How are you gonna get exposed to that?
I don't think people my age (high school) fully understand

> nothing gets deleted

Mean people say and do equivalent things on social media as in person. Although, I must say, this lockdown is probably a blessing to those who are consistently bullied at school, as now they're able to at least physically avoid them.
> The epilog is that after a decade of floundering I realized that even though I am pretty good at science, I was no good at playing academic politics and quit the pursuit; I drove for lyft/uber for a bit, and now I'm a backend dev.

I'm really sorry. It seems a lot of people are hit by a wall of cruelty. More is less in our lives.

Have you thought of joining some biohacklab to keep enjoying your talent and curiosity on your original field ?
Git wasn't built in a weekend: https://www.linuxfoundation.org/blog/2015/04/10-years-of-git...

And git wasn't even built in 10 days, as Linus has said elsewhere. The core structure was, kind of. But there's been a large effort on top of that.

And the idea that Facebook was built in a weekend is just completely wrong. Sure, some basic Facebook-ish app was created over a weekend, sorta.
Maybe I'm just a bad person but I don't feel much for people who get scammed due to their own greed.
So, it's not that opportunities to socialize don't exist. It's that an ever increasing number of them are being mediated through social media. Which means that the list of non-social-media options in one's community likely caters to an ever decreasing variety of interests.
It wouldn’t be useful to them. Among the modifications they made to pad 39A, SpaceX built their horizontal assembly building right where the crawlerway approaches the pad.
The real conclusion would be to realize that the people "good at valuation" are glorified gamblers and not on another plane of existence from the rest.

In fact, it's tautological to state that if they got burned, then they are not that good. Or perhaps the entire thing is pareidolic nonsense.
This is not about upsides and downsides. The truth is execs in Twitter, Facebook and Youtube had no clue what upsides and downside would be produced by the system they created.

The happily took credit for the upsides and for the longest time, like almost a decade, laughed out of the room anyone talking about the downsides.

Such people are still in charge of these fucking companies.
sci-hub has not tried to move anything in that direction.
I would guess that opposition to sci-hub is mainly because it could reduce barriers to entry, and de-value traditional journals. For established researchers the high level of gatekeeping caused by journals is in their favor, since they know how to play the game, and many other want-to-be-researchers do not.
Note that the mobile launch platform (MLP or ML) is different than the Crawler Transporter - https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/atoms/files/crawler...

The Crawler-Transporter is the thing that carried the mobile launch platform.
Totally random outage I'm sure. From what I am interpreting, the people who have most to lose on this are the banks and brokerages who needed to buy the GameStop stock to cover their positions after selling the options to all these retail traders.

There are regulatory "circuit breaker" conditions but I wonder if this was a more informal one. The internet hive mind wasn't in their risk models and I would wonder if there was risk of this event causing a cascading blow-up effect.
I'm agree with you but I gotta say, I have yet to find the perfect tutorial that say "follow these N steps and you'll always get what you expect".

For me, the common places things break are, setting up a flexbox and not having the content scale to fit.

Trying to make an app like layout (so the page itself doesn't scroll though some content in various areas might) and again, trying to get various flexbox areas to either fit their content or get the content to fit its area without expanding the page past the window size (note: if you use overflow: hidden you failed)

In any case I'm not a UI/UX designer so I don't do it daily, therefore when I do need to do it it's always a bunch of frustrating trial and error.

That said, I do think there are a class of designers that also don't know these answers. They just know a few frameworks that handle all of this for them.
A buddy of mine just leaned out that whole issue and just charges by the day.
MRR = monthly recurring revenue
even if there were some kind of massive spam event, Google isn't going to block emails from its own IP blocks or domains from reaching Gmail or Gsuite customers

When I worked there it absolutely did do this. Yes it seemed stupid to me at first too, but all it takes to end up like that is to decide not to give yourself unfair special exceptions to your own policies, which is how things should be!

frankly, I would be shocked if any of the various DNS blocklists that people use for determining who's a dirty spammer would actually put a Google IP block on there

Be shocked. It did happen when a particularly clever spammer got through the controls. There are no bits of logic in most email servers that say "if IP is owned by Google, ignore". Spam filters are all relative. If senders send a lot more good mail than bad, they're good. If they send a lot more bad mail than good, they're bad. Google IPs are rarely blocked because they send a lot of good mail and invest a huge amount of money and time in keeping it that way.
We had our first in very similar fashion, but part of our “birth plan” was that me (the husband) can make decisions both for my wife and child, and that I’m also always present if the child is taken out of our room.

I felt treated as an equal, and several times they would ask a question and say we can discuss it together before making a decisions before leaving the room.

I don’t know if it was the birth plan or something else, but our experience was excellent. I recommend anyone worried about this also create a birth plan and bring it with them.
I built a really fun library to represent I2C modules as a collection of classes to interface with them at various levels that equated to a whole lot of class instances (an instance per register, and an instance per interesting group of registers, and so on)

Really fun in dev...really fun with my small test device. Then I loaded the config for a complicated I2C module and quickly blew out my memory. I was sad that I had to revert to more mundane means of I2C, but whatever.

A newer version of that same board has more memory. Perhaps it could support my mammoth I2C model.
Universal health care/medicare for all would in my opinion be the most impactful help small businesses and startups could get.

So many people stuck in jobs just because they can’t risk losing health coverage.
The value currently is not in GameStop itself but in the need for the short sellers to buy back the shares. So there is value in buying & holding. How much is still open..

The situation is pretty bonkers but I hope in the end that the hedge funds have learned a lesson.
Reddit seem to be run by a Manchurian candidate of sorts - half the time on mobile I'm genuinely thinking to myself "Do you want the traffic or not?"
Are these U.S.A. horror stories of 1940s gender roles that one so often reads on the internet actually reflective of the country, or is this a case of “Something such as this can happen at least once everywhere.”?

I have even read stories of males complaining that they are held up by police and strangers, for committing the suspicious offence of being seen walking with their own children. Is this overdramatized?

P.s.: this thread at least seems to come with somewhat similar stories. — no idea where they are located.
> Would you consider a line in the plane to have holes?

Good point! I guess it's not different to the equator on the surface of a sphere... so yes, a straight line "encloses" half of the plane "inside" it, so it has a hole.

Of course, my definition only works for the type of wholes that are cavities. Defining other types of holes, as discussed in the article, requires more than elementary point-set topology.
The title says the word "historic", and it was definitely used in history, but I don't see any reason for anyone to be sentimental about this thing.
Oh, I agree. I think whitelist / blacklist is a manufactured controversy.

But my point is that, if people took the time to learn the background, perhaps (in both of these examples, and others), we could avoid the kerfuffles.
An argument could actually be made that Gamestop should be worth about $250 a share, assuming they capitalize on this short squeeze by issuing new shares and turn things around/pivot well.
I've moved twice with all of my furniture and it's still going strong. The only thing that worries me for my next move would be the board on the back of my bookshelf, since it's only held in with very tiny nails.
The outages are caused by the execution brokers not being able to execute orders fast enough resulting in the order queue getting longer and longer. Also other capacity issues caused by everyone logging in simultaneously.
We've been running our startup [1] in this "media research industry" for just a while. We're on the classic media use case side.

It is true that the vast majority of "research" is done by non-academics. Lots of companies doing market research want to mine media data.

Still, I believe that this "social media research" is a bit overvalued. There was this wave of "social media is the primary source where information appear". But now many realized how freaking difficult to separate this data from the noise comparing to traditional news published by journalists.

Also, take a look on this article [2] about how Dataminr sells insights from Twitter data to foreign governments (2017). Seems like just a way to punish the opposition channels.

[1] https://newscatcherapi.com/

[2] https://www.theverge.com/2017/1/27/14412014/dataminr-twitter...
Screens are a legit drug, and unfortunately I'm a user. It's worse for kids growing up into this, at least when I was a child screen time was limited by the kid show time slots, ofc its available 24/7, several firehoses worth at all times. Not a lot of available resources to combat this, except individual efforts Im afraid.
Before the Simpsons this was just "get off my lawn", possibly inspired by some other piece of media long forgotten
It is certainly true that a camera does not have the equivalent of a telescope's eyepiece lens (at least when capturing the picture), but I think one could say that in a telescope, the combination of eyepiece lens and the lens of the viewer's eye functions in the same way as a camera, by casting a real image on the sensor (the retina, in this case.)
What happens when Alice wants to send a message to Bob, but they are not in Bluetooth range of each other?

Can a Birdy client with internet access serve as a gateway to other Birdy clients without internet access?
Perl had a fix for this called suidperl, which was a wrapper which enabled Taint mode and other strict checks (https://perldoc.perl.org/perlsec). I don't know of any other language or interpreter that go this far for security by default, so Perl might be the most secure language in this regard. However, suidperl was dropped in 5.12.

My main point was that you could rewrite sudo in all sorts of languages, but saying "just rewrite it in Perl" (assuming it worked) isn't a enough justification to make it happen. Nobody is going to re-create their own project in Perl, Rust, etc just to eliminate buffer overflows. If somebody wants sudo in Rust, they'll have to do it themselves, and it still might never replace the original.
I ran Intel on desktop for many years partly for that reason, partly due to much lower idle consumption, but to be honest, while full of features the Intel graphic drivers were for a long time (several years) a little bit buggy. I wasn't super impressed with that.

I recently switched to integrated AMD graphics, and the only problem I had was occasional render artifacts. Yes, a bit scary, but in practice only an occasional cosmetic problem. I think those disappeared completely some time ago. This is on a stock kernel.

The only graphics-related problems I have these days are with Wine and some old games, where it looks like there's a difference between what Wine emulates and what it expects to get directly from the 3D driver, e.g. with regards to old 16 bit color modes that I suppose the AMD driver simply doesn't bother with.
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Charles Schwab's phone system isn't working for me. Also possibly related?